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Paper, 'Directions for using the common micrometer' by James Bradley

Reference number: L&P/5/279

Date: 1772

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Posthumously published.

Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Directions for using the common micrometer, taken from a paper in the late Dr. Bradley's hand-writing; communicated by Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal, and F. R. S'

Read 20 February 1772

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L&P/5/279
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1772
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Ink on paper
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11 pages
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Manuscript

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James Bradley

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James Bradley, Paper, 'Directions for using the common micrometer' by James Bradley, 1772, L&P/5/279, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_279/paper-directions-for-using-the-common-micrometer-by-james-bradley, accessed on 17 May 2025

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